The latest Kitsuné Maison compilation (3) has been growing on me lately, more than the first two did. The more I hear Freeform Five's "Home Wit U" (whose vocals channel Bernard Sumner of New Order, at least to me) the more 3 tops my list. The Simian Mobile Disco track "I Believe" is straight out of the now-defunct Simian's third album that never was. But the one track that I always wait for in anticipation to come up is Alex Gopher's "Motorcyle (Wet Clutch Short Edit)" a track too French to be MSTRKRFT but too MSTRKRFT to be Alex Gopher.
From what I am familiar with, Gopher came out with his first full-length in 1999 with You, My Baby & I riding the wave of the '99 French House scene and channeling as much dance-funk as Cassius's sound at the time. The last I heard of him was the superb collab with Julien Delfaud & Etienne De Crécy for Super Discount 2's "Fast Track" aka "Someone Like You," the best dance single from 2004, if you ask me.
Now we get this new single show up in Maison 3 that has Alex Gopher channeling electro-disco house at its finest, and MSTRKRFT should be jealous. But of course Gopher's track has that special French twist to it, like Sprite Remix with its tropical fruit twist on the old taste. Let's hope this new year will see more of Alex Gopher; in the meantime, check out his track!
Alex Gopher "Motorcyle (Wet Clutch Short Edit)"
